What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

OR MORE APT- BACKWARD IN TWATTERY”.

The demise of The West Midlands County Council in 1986 saw local authorities once again taking on the responsibility of waste management and matters involving regulation. In anticipation of this April Fools day handover, a piece in the 21st  March Coventry Evening Telegraph claimed that the new Hazardous Waste Unit as it would be called would regulate the activities. Quoted is none other than Thelma Hillman, who is now “assistant waste disposal officer for pollution control in The West Midlands”.  😆

You can see that from this, it was just business as usual, or polluting business as usual to be more apt. The WMCC had totally failed to stop flytipping waste crime of toxic waste, and had failed to ensure that licensing for tipping said hazardous waste was “tightly controlled” at all- as we can see from the useless fucking licences that they passed. Hillman and co during these dark years, were very much the problem and not the solution, and the name change brought no change at all, as we shall see.

A couple of years later, after the Walsall Council based cretins had assumed , or kept their roles, a piece from the Sunday Mercury 24th January 1988 posed the provocative question, “Why must we be turned into the world’s poison dustbin?”

The short answer to this is that The Conservative Government at the time, the ministers and the civil service were all bent and corrupt fucking stains who kept the system for polluting business growth. The article talks of that word “timebomb” in relation to toxic waste producing methane gas being evolved from landfill sites, but poorly links this to waste being imported from other countries.

We of course had the same article in 1971 bemoaning exactly the same thing.

Factually, the Mercury article is utter bollocks in this regard, given the waste that Britain and the rest of the developed world  itself exported to third world countries for young children to die from and cause them cancer and other health maladies. It is obviously intended to enflame tensions that existed around this time in that the West Midlands was receiving a disproportionate amount of this foreign crap, particularly with crook firms like Leigh Environmental and co handling it in the HWU back yard. “Our safety” the piece claims, is all down to the Walsall based office wonders .  😮

We get a full PR treatment of this useless vessel. This anti foreign bullshit belies the fact that British firms like Albright and Wilson were poisoning their communities for decades and dumping fucking toxic waste in their communities unregulated, and when “regulated” by the likes of the HWU was a regulation not fit for purpose. Somehow, this red herring makes it more saleable to voters of a certain persuasion perhaps that it is a foreign problem, when the complete opposite is the case. Dirty Britain made it, dirty Britain dumped it. 

It states that 40 people are employed in this team, with Hillman playing a prominent role.

She makes some very prophetic comments, the most shocking being

“I worry about the future and the problems that we are storing up… we have good records of what has been put where, but you never know what will happen in 30 or 40 years. Records can get lost”. 

Well, dear Thelma, all I can say to that is your records at the WMCC were fucking shite. You personally were unable to point out where 250,000 gallons of toxic waste had been tipped on a new housing estate, so did not know “what had been put where”, let alone the records of waste dumping before licensing at places such as Rattlechain lagoon which they did not know anything about at all! 

I’m not sure how a civil servant came to talk to the press in this way, or whether it was even apt to do so, but it was not the first time she had done this, as a 1981 New Scientist article titled “Toxic waste- the political connections” again quotes her bemoaning the lack of political will and how lack of staff will lead to fly-tipping waste disposal “cowboys” operating. This was during the time of the WMCC and there had now just been a change in political leadership of that council from Labour to Conservative. One might question the political motives of an officer making comments of this type. 😕 The Lords Select Committee obviously failed to take anything on board or make any meaningful contribution to the debate. 

As for the 30-40 years she speaks of, we know of course that thanks to her team who morphed and got jobs in the Environment Agency, the records were quite deliberately obfuscated, the chemicals hidden from members of the public into meaningless phrases,  probably for the same bent political bastards in Government who now pursue “brownfield first” building on the said toxic time bomb sites for their crook developer party political donors!

I wonder how many of those working for this team at this time went into environmental consultancy for the bent land banking house building sector?

The final joke is that the unit is considered ” a centre of excellence” in the UK, but that “standards were slipping”. I honestly cannot believe how out of touch this woman was with reality at this time, but perhaps at least she did not jump ship like at least two of her  treacherous colleagues, who obviously knew that there was more money to be made in the private sector of helping firms avoiding being caught than catching the criminals at work.

The only thing that she is right about is the lack of political will to change the situation, though this was apparent, and remains apparent with all Governments since this article was written. Perhaps the HWU speaking out about foreign waste thought that there were votes to be made in talking up imported foreign waste instead of that made locally? This perhaps shows how apathetic people are, but only because they were not told of the real risks of the chemicals- by those who had worked at the West Midlands County Council to start with.

They added the mercury tilt switches by bloody useless licences, and set double wires by the pathetically worded conditions which created loopholes in themselves. The fuses were set by them, and they should own that instead of talking shite.

Nice to put a face to the waste…..of space

Just a few months later, the same title followed up with a piece on 12th March 1989.

A Government Select committee, (yet another one just 8 years after the Lords),  had looked into waste disposal issues, and concluded that the system was crap. The trouble with scrutiny committees of MP’s such as this is that that put forth some holier than thou points urging urgency, yet are safe in the knowledge that nothing will change. It is their role to play the alarmist, because it generates them headlines, and only continues the system of political failure when nothing happens. We were now 17 years after The Deposit of Poisonous Wastes Act, and 15 years after The Control of Pollution Act, so all failures of these laws were on Parliament themselves, and no one else. A Conservative talks of “near misses” yet is blind to places such as Rattlechain lagoon which were not near misses, they had been allowed to happen, as had all the other SL licences passed by the WMCC.

The article mentions Hillman and the MP’s who share her concerns, but also astutely states;

“But where are the politicians and the environmentalist lobby when it comes to the unglamorous question of toxic waste buried under the feet of ordinary people here in the West Midlands? “

Quite right, because today in 2022 they are all veering us away with the bollocks of “climate change” ,planned  policies of globalist change and coercion, taking us away from local issues and happy to build houses on top of these toxic waste tips. I know history will record how such environmental groups , (probably political plant confederates), and politicians were all really just pissing in the same pot.

In the report, Rossi talks a good fight, but is blind to what he is actually stating.

“All old landfill sites are suspect. Nobody knows what chemistry is taking place. No testing is done, no monitoring. “

Well, is that not what the licensing system was supposed to do when introduced by Parliament and upheld by the likes of Thelma Hillman? FFS!

The Mercury also states that the report does not mention any single tip or location- thus its authors were part of the problem, blowing hot air and protecting the system they were claiming to condemn. This is why politicians of the like of Hugh Rossi are not to be trusted when coming out with hot air headlines such as this. They are nothing but cowards, and are totally insincere in changing things. Theirs is a world where they cosy up to CEO’s of scum like Leigh Environmental and Albright and Wilson, or even become their advisers such as at least two fuckwit MP’s were doing at this time. They then claim credit for reductions in what they are doing instead of outright bans. No one of course can possibly measure this horseshit or prove it is happening.

It does mention the unfolding Leigh Environmental protests in Walsall and the distrust of people in the operation being regulated properly.

Some 33 years later, nothing has changed at all, and the timebomb fuse is still ticking. Unfortunately, it will have exploded in some people who have had their homes built on toxic tips in the form of cancers which they will have to prove came from the crap that Hillman and co failed to stop happening all those years ago. Failures like Rossi have also snuffed it and are now, to use an apt paraphrased term for him “sleeping with the two headed fishes”, and that at least it is no loss at all. The records of toxic waste tipped and buried have been deleted for this very purpose, and this is the real legacy of The West Midlands County Council- complicit with industrialists in harming people and the Environment for purely economic gain. #SCUM. 

OR MORE APT- BACKWARD IN TWATTERY”.

This former quango is without doubt one of the worst examples of governance in modern history, with the role of waste disposal and pollution prevention being the rotting corpse in a grave that kept on leaking. For much of its existence it was steered by a bloke called  Ken Harvey, who I believe was nothing more than a Birmingham bins bloke foreman who suddenly found himself elevated to the souped-up role of “county waste disposal officer”, a role for which he was an absolute fucking failure and disaster, and architect of things that are still left over today from 40+ years ago. Of course the bunch of greasing turds in charge as c”o”unty councillors at this time are also culpable for passing waste disposal licences such as SL31 and their weak wording which allowed scum like Albright and Wilson to carry on polluting with little implications on them.

Their doomwatch sites, I have listed from these dark days of Harvey’s failure to control pollution , as well as showing how incompetent his officers were in that they could not even identify a location where 250,000 gallons of sulphuric acid had been dumped, after those who had done the crime had been prosecuted!

As well as the failure of licensing, it is clear that Harvey’s idiots were not even competent chemists or scientists, which would have come in quite handy in tackling and challenging deceitful liars like AW about their waste disposal activities.

Harvey and co passed a licence which allowed AW to dispose of one of the most toxic substances handled in the region, (white phosphorus),  into an urban watery lagoon, on the basis that it would be “safe” to let it oxidise in “small quantities”– as we know, hundreds of tonnes of it actually FFS!

What an absolute crock of shit! The process was neither “safe” and the amounts were not “small”. Albright and Wilson liars of the chemical industry.

Not only was the plant in which this cargo came from not competent in stopping pollution over decades harming people and the environment, but its dump was already known as a notorious hell in the middle of Dudley Port that was “a peril to children”.

When road tanker operation took over from canal barge, it was clear that the operation was still not safe, when material deposited at rattlechain was allowed to burn out. I looked at how a tanker carrying waste to rattlechain, including drums of toxic material had caught fire on route there from Trinity Street. 

This was from The May 16th 1976 edition of the Sandwell Evening Mail and therefore before the SL31 licence had been passed in 1978. You would have hoped that incidents such as this would have informed those passing the licence, or refusing to allow it to continue- well at least any reasonable person would.  🙄 

“An official enquiry has been launched into the incident in which highly combustible phosphorus waste caught fire in Oldbury while being transported by open lorry to a tip.

A full scale police and fire brigade alert was started when a 40 gallon drum containing the waste burst into flames. It was being driven through Oldbury to a Tividale tip from the Langley works of chemical manufacturers Albright and Wilson Ltd.

Mr Ken Harvey the county council’s waste disposal officer said “I would not consider this a satisfactory method of transporting such materials.

I am aware of the Albright and Wilson waste tipping operations but I am not aware that waste is being handled in this manner.

We intend to pursue this matter through discussions with the company because after this incident one must accept that present transportation arrangements are not entirely satisfactory.”

I discussed the paradox as to how Harvey could claim that the practice of transporting this waste was “not satisfactory” , yet allowing it to continue under his watch under a licence bearing his own name just months later.

What I have recently found through another article, is that Harvey’s claims and “enquiry” were absolutely nothing of the sort, and that any discussion with AW must have involved either brown envelopes of cash to look the other way , a freemason handshake, or ignoring any safety implications of continuing this operation, as it clearly did continue.

The 11th June 1976 Birmingham Mail is a shocking indictment of Harvey’s incompetence in his job, and that of the entire regulator. In less than one month, this white wash lie concluded that the firm were not to blame for the incident, of course clearing Harvey’s own useless organisation of any wrong doing themselves, in that they were quite happy for AW to have been doing this to start with.

What is more bizarre is that it recommended that the lorries should no longer be single crewed, rather than the highly flammable cargo being unsuitable to be carried through residential streets! I mean what the actual fuck are they talking about here?

Thirteen drums of p4 containing waste had left the site heading for rattlechain, when one caught fire- thus all them would have eventually.

“A spokesman said that Albright and Wilson were transporting this cargo with authority”. 

Yes of course, ultimately the ass clown Ken Harvey’s authority. 

Even more incredible is that the berk at WMCC, probably this lazy thick hopper tipper twat himself, claims that they did not know how the incident started. FFS! P4 catches fire when exposed to air, it really is that simple! 

There is also the absolute lie from the driver and AW that there was “a burst tyre”. This for me is typical of this company and their red herring bullshit which attempts to switch blame onto anything but the chemicals they fail to handle safely. I mean if a tyre had “burst”, how would the driver have been able to tour the area looking for somewhere to park when knowing that one of the drums was on fire behind him? He would have lost control of the vehicle and probably crashed. Did that happen; I think not? I also wonder as to whether the driver was pressured into making this fake claim to keep his job, nothing would surprise me at all with the management of this shameful operator.

Another provable lie is that AW steered clear of residential areas. THEY DID NOT! They were still using the same route described in the SEM article in the 2000’s !

The map below from the period shows both the former toxic trail by canal barge compared to the toxic trail by road. There may have been some variations of this route from Trinity Street via Shidas lane/Lower City Road for example, but I stalked these bastards along the route at the time in the 2000’s between loads, so I know what I am talking about.

Albright and Wilson’s Toxic trails, from factory to tip– blue the canal route, red the road route.

I am not sure how two men could have done anything differently than one, and it is clear that one man in a tanker continued to dump the waste all those years later when I first came across the scene in the 1990’s. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT ANY ONE MAN COULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB THAN KEN HARVEY DID, AND THAT THE OLD BOYS NETWORK OF MILITARY PAST DEEDS/CIVIL SERVICE BACK SCRATCHING FROM AW CONTINUED TO GIVE THEM SPECIAL PASSES TO DO WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANTED TO WITH AN APPARENT DIPLOMATIC INDUSTRIAL IMMUNITY. 

WMCC could not detect a white phosphorus fire if it came up and lit them up the arse.

I have looked previously at the location app called what3words in connection to rattlechain lagoon.  

Some of the 3 square metre locations within the site offer some pretty hilarious and relevant 3 word unique combinations. I think my favourite is the one below.

But something just popped in there like A LIGHT BULB the other day in my head as it often does from nowhere. I wonder if there is a place in all of the world that consists of everyone’s favourite most controversial waste disposal site that in itself consists of three words- RATTLE CHAIN LAGOON? Surely there would not be such a place that could have been so unlucky to have been assigned such a hellish namesake consisting of three square metres? WELL THERE IS! 

WHAT.THE.FUCK?

The location appears to be located near to a lagoon or lake with similar shape to our rattlechain!

But where in the world is this place, which also looks like it is in the middle of nowhere? The answer when I went to Google maps takes an even more bizarre twist, and I am starting to wonder if I am in either a bad lucid dream or someone is PULLING.MY.PLONKER.

Alaska!

Of course, rattechain lagoon has a connection with this state in the US given the white phosphorus military firing range at Ford Richardson alongside The Eagle River Flats where birds died as a result of white phosphorus poisoning, and the studies of which helped to confirm the link that birds on Rhodia’s LAKE.OF.DEATH were also dying after ingesting the BANNED.RAT.POISON. 

The scientists who were involved in these studies helped us enormously in the endeavour to unpick the mistruths that the Oldbury polluters were peddling, and even mentioned an article about the site in a remediation paper as to options for dealing with another contaminated P4 lagoon.

The area in Alaska of the other rattle chain lagoon is located South West of Anchorage and The Eagle River within the area known as The Lake and Peninsula Borough, or sometimes appears to be called “The Lake and Peninsula school district.” 

This is a very rural area with very few inhabitants and plenty of Grizzly Adams style critters, with the nearest populated area called Pilot Point.  

Isn’t it a small world! What I am sure about however is that whatever 3 square metre rocky outcrop RATTLE.CHAIN.LAGOON Alaska falls within, it would be a much safer place for man and beast that the white phosphorus CONTAMINATED.SHIT.HOLE  namesake in Oldbury England!

This white phosphorus misadventure involves yet another common theme, foolish youth associated with dangerous chemicals. I suppose some people never grow up and continue to play with them in industry- per Albright and Wilson.  😈

To Scotland then and the 2nd May 1951 Edinburgh Evening News , where a couple of wee Jimmies got more than they bargained for when playing with the Devil’s element.

Fan-dabi-implozi !

Apparently, the two Glaswegian youngsters did not know that Phosphorus has to be stored in water, and again one of them put it in their pocket after nicking some from school. Obviously, his behind or jock parts were badly burned in the incident, which also affected passengers on the tram who tried to douse the flames. No time for trainspotting here then.  😆

So I suppose the moral of the story is, if you are going to put P4 in your pocket, it might help to keep it moist.  😛  😆  😆

I think most people living next to a Control of Substances Hazardous to Health site, such as the Solvay plant in Langley, would like to know what those substances are, but why are Sandwell Council making this information difficult for people to access?

There is a major problem with Sandwell Council’s planning department in the way in which they are working for applicants and NOT for the public.

Many examples have come to light about officers scheming with developers who just happen to be party political donors, and also the scandal of land sales by a councillor on a committee to do so which benefitted his developer son- who also worked in the planning department at SMBC!

I have already given examples of my experiences with them in the form of the CCTV permissions at Rattlechain, and  with the Gower Tip fiasco, and now I have found more evidence of applications which Solvay put in regards Hazardous Substance consents,  (dangerous and flammable chemicals they can store and handle on site), which had reportedly been shelved, yet it now emerges that HS/040 was given consent in 2020.  👿

The history of this application is as follows. I have now also added a page to the list of HSC’s already put in the public domain on this website. THIS INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT FOR ANYONE LIVING IN THE AREA TO KNOW, BUT SANDWELL COUNCIL FOR WHATEVER REASONS KNOWN UNTO ITSELF APPEARS TO WANT TO HIDE IT FROM PUBLIC VIEW. 

I first mentioned this consent application after being contacted by a concerned resident of Langley in August 2018.

You can read about this in THIS POST.

I mentioned here that Sandwell council had deliberately removed all mention of detail of the hazardous substance consents at Trinity Street, as well as giving little information about this latest application. The only opinion I can form from the removal of this key information that was once there is that whoever instructed this or did this is a bent officer or a shill of this company. This is not an oversight, or anything else, it was an intentional and calculated obfuscation of information, and there is no valid reason in the public interest as to why it was done. Obviously, what is in Solvay’s interest is obviously more important to Sandwell Planning. 

I contacted Alison Bishop- yes her again, in the email below dated 27th July 2018. Needless to say, that like all the other attempts to contact this woman, she has to be reminded several times , or does not even have the courtesy to reply at all- as was the case here. I followed this up with the listed case officer Dean Leadon- and got no response either, only to be told at a later date, that he had left the authority. His name is still listed as the case officer on the application on the council website however.

With little time to object, the list of documents suddenly appeared on the council website. Ignore the first two, which I will talk about later. You can see they were uploaded in bulk and the date given is 26th July 2018. This was just one day before I had emailed Bishop.

I objected to this scheme, which can be read in the PDF below.

hs040 objection

After this, I emailed again asking for updates, and received absolutely nothing from the planning department.

I put in two freedom of information requests in early 2019 to The Environment Agency , and to The HSE.

The EA replied claiming that they had had no communication with the council- astounding given that they had been involved with the investigation into the fire and other matters at this site.

The HSE replied that in one document supplied, it could take them up to 26 weeks to respond as the application was being considered by a specialist unit due to the uncertainty of the situation. This consisted of Email dated 17/8/2018 from Sandwell Council to HSE containing revised Application form and Email dated 21st August 2018 to Sandwell Council with HSE attachment  Holding Letter.

I received no further updates from Sandwell council on this matter. The HSE comments have clearly NOT been uploaded to the SMBC website, and so we get the 17 MONTH GAP between talk of pipework, the reworded application, and then it being finally passed under delegated authority nearly a year later on 2nd October 2020.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? AND OH THE IRONY OF LOCKING PEOPLE AWAY IN THEIR HOMES UNDER A “PANDEMIC” WHEN A FAR GREATER CHEMICAL RISK AWAITS ON THEIR DOORSTEP. OPEN THE WINDOWS AS WAS ADVISED BY HEALTH LIARS, AND YOU MIGHT BREATHE SOMETHING IN THAT REALLY DOES DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH FFS! 

There is too much going on out of the public eye between these SMBC planning officers and other agencies and the applicants. They appear to be pissing in the same pot, and it just will not do when it comes to compromising people’s safety and not allowing a chance to question decisions or examine the applications in a fair manner. They are covering up documents out of public view, and this is deliberate.

But it seems that another application was also put in unbeknown to me tabled HS/041 in    June 2021 . This too is a devious application which hides new chemicals being added to the list which were previously not registered as Hazardous substances on the site. I have also looked at the details of this application and the chemicals involved ON THIS PAGE. 

Something very odd appears to occur when planning applications are put in to Oldbury. I think there is a case that Sandwell council should be renamed

“The Spoon Council”. 

In fact, I think that the sculpture below would look just spiffing in Freeth Street, right outside The Oldbury Kremlin.

Well, this one concerns red phosphorus actually.  😛

I have looked at white phosphorus and accidents in schools in this post, when it used to be allowed in school laboratories.

There was another case of misadventure where an idiot school boy got burnt whilst clowning around with some P4 and then tried to sue the school master whom he falsely claimed to be negligent.

This post deals with a very similar incident but involves a Scottish girl, remarkably named “Burns”  😆

The time of year is also bizarre in that it was published on 4th November 1954 in the Edinburgh Evening News. It had taken Ms Burns two years to bring action against the Glaswegian council for injuries claimed to have been sustained in the classroom after a teacher had not given proper instruction of disposing of chemicals, notably red phosphorus and potassium chlorate. 

I will discuss this reaction  further on in this post, but safe to say that anyone who knows anything about chemistry will know that this reaction would cause significant exothermic activity resulting in the fire which burnt her clothes and hospitalised her.

A different story however is given in defence, arguing that this silly miss was in fact well aware of what the reaction would be in pondering “how the school could be blown up”, or words to that effect when adding chemicals into a bag.

The following days paper tells how her case had failed to persuade the court jury into granting her the £1000 damages she was seeking. The jury found that she had not followed the teachers instructions, having “meddled” with the chemical mixture that had burnt her- thus, she was the author of her own Burns.

It is little wonder that she suffered injury from her stupidity.

6P + 5KClO₃  → 3P₂O₅ + 5KCl

The reaction is that of striking a match.

The gritty material on the side of a match-box is coated with red phosphorus. The match-head contains potassium chlorate and some red colouring. When the match-head rubs against the box, friction ignites the mixture of phosphorus and potassium chlorate.

A couple of videos below demonstrate this reaction. Don’t try this at home or in school, yall, or even think of adding cough sweets or sugar in cetain ratios;-) ……

ALBRIGHT AND WILSON’S “ABSOLUTE AND UTTER SCANDAL”

Without doubt things began to unravel for this abysmal employer in the 1990’s along with their ultimate demise. The number of incidents at Trinity Street and elsewhere during this decade made them a public menace and a threat to life in all of the communities which they unfortunately had premises.

But their workers also suffered, and unlike some who appear to have been coercively brainwashed into thinking they were working for a good employer that cared about their health, there were some brave souls who chose to fight and expose their corporate and managerial negligence.

One such example comes from the  Friday 28th May 1993 Sandwell Evening Mail. I have chosen to redact the name of the employee, though if they want to get in touch with this blog, I would be very interested to talk to you, hoping that your silence was not bought. 

The story tells how the chemical process worker at Trinity Street lost a leg and his foot on his other was “mangled” when he got caught in the blades of machinery. The accident had occurred some 11 years previous and the man had returned to work, but he had not received any compensation from Albright and Wilson!

The follow up story from the mail of  29th May 1993 reveals that he had received £258,000. Unfortunately, I would wager that much of this probably never reached him and reached his legal team instead. The judge identifies that the company knew that they were liable, yet had held out paying their worker until this ruling. What an absolute bunch of evil scum they really were. Quakers my arse!

In 1951, Sydney Barratt, then vice chair of AW stated in the history of the company “100 years of phosphorus making”  ;

“When at the close of the second war the company could take stock of themselves and make plans it was decided to embark with energy upon the diversification and increase of their business. It was at this time that decisions were taken which added oil additives, insecticides, and certain organic chemicals to established manufactures, and were the beginning of the silicones project now in hand. The annual turnover of these new ventures already  exceeds that of the Parent Company as it was in 1930. Each of these developments had some connection with previous interests, if only a tenuous one, but each offered the Company entry into new markets.”

Barratt was as disingenuous as he was a Home Guard poser, and I have already written several posts about how the oil additives plant , the part brainchild of fellow war dodger Home guard twat Bill Albright, created the notorious “Oldbury smell”.

This was fine for those making profit, but it blighted the area. Part of the reason for the AW success came as a result of new machinery installed on the back of the war, and no thanks to the Nazi’s themselves- when AW engineer and British intelligence Ministry of Supply part timer Alf Loveless toured the captured factories on behalf of The British Government.

It should also be said that the production of insecticides mentioned here , was also a Nazi invention that AW obviously picked up the baton in wartime “victory”.

For this they have a man called  Gerhard Schrader to thank. Schrader worked for IG Farben, the home of Nazi produced chemical extermination. Anyone associated with such a place is/was evil as far as I am concerned. Whereas those in power face the consequences of show trials after the war, the perversity of the so called “allies” offered people like this fucking scum a job for life. Officially, it is claimed that he declined, but I wonder? The damage of his “work” was already enough. He should have been gassed with his own accidental invention. 

“During World War II, under the Nazi regime, teams led by Schrader discovered two more organophosphate nerve agents, and a fourth after the war:

• Tabun (1936)
• Sarin (1938)
• Soman (1944)
• Cyclosarin (1949)”

We therefore have this man to thank for chemical warfare under the guise of “insecticides”, and the continued demise and poisoning of the environment in the name of agriculture and farming. Thank him also for insidious cancer causing substances that large corporations claim falsely does not cause such illness and the way in which they buy political support and crooked civil service confederacy in policy making.

Organophosphates destroy life, they offer no legitimate use and they kill life by blocking the enzyme acetylcholinesterase which is produced to break down the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine and disrupt the proper functioning of the nerve cells. Hence, these insecticides are called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.

One of his discoveries was the first contact insecticide “Bladen” of which the main ingredient for killing insects was Hexaethyl tetraphosphate, (HETP). Also along the same lines was Tetraethyl pyrophosphate, (TEPP). Both are highly toxic to animals as well as insects. 

So it should come as little surprise that Schrader’s legend cover story of wanting to “feed the world” and instead creating substances which could destroy it for the Nazis would be used by such capitalistic scum as Albright and Wilson and their fake Quakerism.

The adverts below were taken from 1949, and directly show how by this time, they were employing people to recreate the Nazi discovery for commercial gain.

19th February 1949 Illustrated London News

Phosphate insecticides like the ones mentioned would make AW a great deal of money by using their commercial stocks of phosphorus oxychloride and phosphorus pentoxide- both used as methods for making the chemical. It should come as no surprise that Schrader and others were interrogated about their work with TEPP and other such substances by British intelligence, to which I have very little doubt the likes of AW scientists would have been involved in advising upon.

This company profited from war and it profited from the Nazi science – but stick a “made in Oldbury ” sticker on it, and pretend it’s a British thing.- that’s the toxicity of companies like Albright and Wilson. 

19 February 1949  The Sphere

what lies out there……?

It seems the berks in the Home Guard were not the only fools to dispose of P4 WMD, but whereas land was their preferred method, the regulars were at it using watery graves.

A great piece from Chemistry World raises the issue of former white phosphorus weapons that have been ludicrously dumped at sea finding their way back to land and the issues this causes when beachcombers may pick up fragments of still dangerous armaments.

It states

“In 1995 more than 4500 incendiary bombs – made of phosphorus, benzene and cellulose – washed up on beaches around Scotland’s west coast. They were part of an estimated million tons of munitions dumped between 1945 and 1976 by the Ministry of Defence in Beaufort’s Dyke, an underwater trench between Northern Ireland and Scotland. It was speculated that the munitions were disturbed by work on an undersea gas link between the two countries.”

I have found a few more incidents similar to this which reveal the British Government’s insane legacy of post war fly-tipping.

The 30th August 1968 Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald reported how a young boy had been digging near to a caravan site in Swalecliffe when the mud started to smoke.

One may speculate if the “enemy” had dropped a bomb in the area, or if this was another Gov dumping event gone wrong.

It appears that there was not much of a plan, other than to rake the area and let it burn out.

Just a couple of years later, the Herne Bay Press of 24th July 1970 revealed that more p4 had washed ashore “probably from a submerged wreck in The Thames Estuary”. I have no doubt that this was from the notorious SS Richard Montgomery, which the UK Government have been shitting themselves for years as to what to do with it, but I don’t think that these off floaters from the wreck , or the potential for such events have been publicised in recent times. So they continue to leave it where it lies.

“experts from Portsmouth were called in”

Two Liverpool Echo reports perhaps show the waste of taxpayers money spent on supposedly training soldiers who appear to be thicker than dogshit for blowing up bombs on the beaches. This hazard was created by them and their utter incompetence which meant that fragments of the solid had scattered over a wider area putting the public at more risk than the actual bomb itself.

The first of 5th August 1969 concerns how the morons blew up a rocket on a Dorset beach , which would require 5 tonnes of contaminated sand to be removed. How is it possible that these “experts” were not able to identify that the device contained p4?

  On 6th June 1972 , we appear to get a repeat exercise taking place.

A couple of more recent incidents in the UK can be found in internet searches.

This article from 2015 shows just how dangerous white phosphorus is when it comes into contact with flesh. “Not a chemical weapon”- my fat hairy arse!

Newcastle man found ‘Orange stone’ on beach and it set his leg on fire | Daily Mail Online

Just last year the Navy EOD destroyed a phosphorus flare

Navy bomb squad blows up phosphorus flare found on Cornish beach – Plymouth Live (plymouthherald.co.uk)

And it isn’t just in the UK that Britain’s wartime legacy rears its ugly head. The Beaufort’s Dyke graveyard continues to drift unwanted munitions debris towards Irish beaches as the Hartland Evening News of 5th June 1998 showed. 

And in Germany, the legacy of the RAF firestorm still persists in tiny pockets of “amber” like rocks burning civilians.

Two Women Injured After Touching WWII Phosphorus on German Beach – DER SPIEGEL

Woman mistakes WWII white phosphorous for an amber stone | Daily Mail Online

I suppose it goes to show that “war criminals” are only those who lose wars I suppose.  😥

A warning from an Israeli case also shows the dangers of taking such artefacts home and discusses the medical implications of treating injuries.

The burning issue of white phosphorus: a case report and review of the literature – PMC (nih.gov)

So the next time you head for the coast and pick up something orange and unusual on the beach, forget Jurassic park , just don’t put it in your pocket, or you might find your behind getting very warm, and that will just be the least of your worries…..

amber stone

An empty grenade crate where 24 AW bombs would have been stored.

I have compiled several recorded incidents of AW bomb discoveries previously, but here are a few more I have found recently which shows just what a pain they really were/still are.

The first from The Spalding Guardian of 17th August 1962 is a typical example of back garden digging going wrong. The 48 grenades that would have been in the two boxes like the one pictured above were found in what used to be a Home Guard Headquarters.

It is clear that these fucking idiots did not even bother to bury them more than a foot deep, and is another example of why this organisation was not fit for purpose.

We all know what that plate said!

Copyright I Carroll

Of course, the bombs never worked at all, they were useless.

Another demonstration of the incompetent Home Guard was shown in the Daily Mirror of 7th February 1966, and this time they upset the local vicar.  😛

Another cache of bombs had been buried by the uniformed clowns at their old HQ in the rectory stables. The finding is another example of new development finding the buried items. What is most interesting is the quote from one of those who buried them.

“When the war ended, we were given orders from the top to bury the bombs”. 

Oh yeah, please name names so they could get the blame , yer daft Dick. Why anyone would have thought this would be a good idea and just “followed orders” is pretty lame to say the least. I very much doubt the story.

The Sunday Mirror of 18th January 1970 uncovers another find in the woods, by another recurring theme in that children had found the devices whilst at play. It is not clear if they were still in a box or just loose at surface level, but it is obvious that they were also just dumped by The Home Guard of that area.

A further 9 AW bombs were found in another garden in Tunbridge Wells- yes even the posh areas saw them buried too. The Kent and Sussex Courier of 19th March 1971 tells how more garden digging  found them. I’m not sure that the local plod would have appreciated them being taken into the station.

The final article from the Dundee Courier of 30th April 1987 occurs around 45 years after the Albright and Wilson milkers were written off.

This tie a bakers dozen were found by more workmen, one of whose boots started to smoke. I’m not sure that the RAOC idea of blowing them up on the beach, and then telling the public to stay away from the area where the bottles were found makes any sense at all. I would have advised people to stay away from the beach where the army blew them up, as this is not the correct way to deal with such devices at all, given that all those years ago, white phosphorus AW bombs that had been disposed of similarly gave off remnants that poisoned wild animals.

You can probably see why they wanted to dump them into some type of pit, where the public would be discouraged from going, and that too had a beach area.

It’s just a question of how many of them went into a clay pit in Tividale after the war under the cover of “a waste disposal site”.